overnight
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The changes meant many went from being legal to unauthorised migrants overnight.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Three weeks later, COVID-19 ended her new career overnight and she moved back to Austin to pursue a master’s degree in mental-health counseling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Asian stocks shrugged off Wall Street’s rally overnight and continued to fall Tuesday amid ongoing artificial-intelligence investment concerns and elevated oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
"Targeted curfews have contributed to calm overnight," Lecornu wrote on X.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
It also made her want to wear the uniform as much as possible while she still could, for after hearing Miss Mortimer’s words she now imagined herself doubling in size overnight with no warning.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
And a few more hospital overnights than were on the holiday itinerary...
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Nobody imagined using Wi-Fi to livestream Thursday Night Football from a multinational tech conglomerate that also overnights toilet paper and garden gnomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Yelmi Martinez, a single mother of three in Fresno who works overnights stocking shelves at a Walmart, said she’ll likely need to visit a food bank over the holidays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
“My mother worked overnights, as well. We have a love and appreciation for the third shift.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
I grabbed my pink canvas duffel bag, the one I’d planned to use for overnights the minute anyone asked me.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
MedMen was so afraid of me and the pettiness and my vitriol that they overnighted us a check.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2024
The pastries look as if they were overnighted from Paris, even as the signature breakfast sandwich — a biscuit with fried chicken, pimento cheese and hot honey — showcases Southern cuisine.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
He said he paid extra to have it overnighted to his home.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
Of the affected voters, a lawyer for the county told the court that 585 had already been overnighted a ballot or had canceled their absentee ballot and voted early.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2022
She occasionally overnighted about an hour outside Detroit with Judy Chiodo, a fellow Trump rally-trotter, rather than drive all the way home to Sault Ste. Marie.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2021
The men in separate canoes were returning to shore after overnighting on the lake’s Deer Island.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Since then, he’s been a fixture in Madrona, overnighting on metal bus benches that were impossibly small for his big frame, then lugging his bags up and down the hills.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
But while overnighting there may be spiritually rewarding, it was physically demanding.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
“We are the first restaurant that has a team in Italy making fresh pasta and overnighting it,” Uovo cofounder Jerry Greenberg said in an email.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2018
Sometimes he travelled closer to the city, overnighting in places like the Merri Creek reserve.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus
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